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17% of UK Adults Believe Google Has Their Best Interests at Heart

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Re: 17% of UK Adults Believe Google Has Their Best Interests at Heart

#12
Here is the question and results:

http://news.sky.com/story/1084991/britons-trust-google-as-mu...

As you can see any conclusions you can draw about Google are pointless since it was specifically benchmarked against politicians, banks etc which are universally disliked.

Re: 17% of UK Adults Believe Google Has Their Best Interests at Heart

#15

Has anybody found the source Case Study? It's not on the mentioned companies websites.

It is obviously a broad based study. So here are a few of the other questions:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/future-britai...

Re: 17% of UK Adults Believe Google Has Their Best Interests at Heart

#17

Here is the question and results: http://news.sky.com/story/1084991/britons-trust-google-as-mu... As you can see any conclusions you can draw about Google are pointless since it was specifically benchmarked against politicians, banks etc which are universally disliked.

For convenience.

Question: "To what extent do the following have your best interests at heart?"

NHS: 37%

Police: 26%

Charities: 21%

Supermarkets: 19%

Google: 17%

Religious institutions: 17%

Building societies: 15%

Local authorities: 10%

Private healthcare firms: 9%

Facebook: 9%

Lawyers: 8%

Banks: 7%

Media: 6%

Utility companies: 6%

Insurance companies: 5%

Politicians: 3%

Re: 17% of UK Adults Believe Google Has Their Best Interests at Heart

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Here is the question and results: http://news.sky.com/story/1084991/britons-trust-google-as-mu... As you can see any conclusions you can draw about Google are pointless since it was specifically benchmarked against politicians, banks etc which are universally disliked.

For convenience. Question: "To what extent do the following have your best interests at heart?" NHS: 37% Police: 26% Charities: 21% Supermarkets: 19% Google: 17% Religious institutions: 17% Building societies: 15% Local authorities: 10% Private healthcare firms: 9% Facebook: 9% Lawyers: 8% Banks: 7% Media: 6% Utility companies: 6% Insurance companies: 5% Politicians: 3%

The only wat this is true is if 17% of people hold stock in Google. Corporations are I believe legally obliged to only have their stock holders interests at heart.

If this survey measures anythings it's just how much goodwill exists toward various organizations.

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